Clinical Trial: Parents and Children Active Together Study

U.S., Feb. 22 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT03055871) titled 'Parents and Children Active Together Study' on Feb. 14.
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to examine physical activity habit formation in parents and if this can increase moderate to vigorous physical activity behavior in their children over six months.The Primary Research Question is:
Does the habit formation condition result in increased moderate-vigorous intensity physical activity of the child compared to the control (education) and education + planning conditions at six months? Hypothesis: Child physical activity will be higher for the habit formation condition in comparison to the more standard physical activity education and planning conditions at six months.
Study Start Date:
Study Type: Interventional
Condition: Physical Activity
Intervention: Behavioral: Habit formation intervention
In addition to the control content and the planning content, this intervention will include material provided to the family that assists with creating physical activity support habits. The material contains a discussion of what habits are, straightforward examples, planning and pointers for forming habits. A key component of the habit intervention will be planning for context-dependent repetition.
Behavioral: Physical activity planning intervention
This arm will receive the control education content, but will also be provided with family PA planning material. This material will include skill training content (workbook on how to plan for family PA). The material includes a brainstorming exercise for parents where they list physical activities they think their children have found fun in the past, as well as activities that they would find enjoyable to do as a family. We also have Canadian parental survey data on the most preferred co-physical activities for children 3-6. We will provide this material as prompts/suggestions. This list helps create the template for PA planning by contextualizing what the parents would like to do with their kids.
Recruitment Status: Not yet recruiting
Sponsor: University of Victoria
Information provided by (Responsible Party): Ryan Rhodes, University of Victoria